In his State of the Union address, President Biden claimed he would be “the only president to ever cut the deficit by more than $1 trillion in a single year.” While this is technically true, he ignores the fact that the reduction in the deficit will be due to the decreased expenditures associated with COVID-19 relief.
Meanwhile, the debt will continue to rise because members of both parties refuse to control spending. The House last week passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that is more than 2,000 pages long. Experience teaches most members have not read all, or even most of it. Why should they? They aren’t spending their money.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in Orwellian “Newspeak” when she mentioned government spending in a recent news conference: ” it’s important to dispel some of those who say, well it’s the government spending. No, it isn’t. The government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.”
Yes, and war is peace.
Remember earmarks, those little and big add-ons to spending bills that Republicans once banned and promised voters they would never return? They’re back, with some Republicans inserting them into the spending bill. Earmarks reportedly take up 367 pages of the bill.